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Needles Nee·dles

Spelling: [need-lz]

IPA: /ˈnid lz/

Needles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in Needles (deeelns).

Definitions for Needles

noun

1. a town in SE California: on Colorado River at Arizona line.
2. a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
3. any of various similar, usually considerably larger, implements for making stitches, as one for use in knitting or one hooked at the end for use in crocheting.
4. Medicine/Medical. a slender, pointed, steel instrument used in sewing or piercing tissues, as in suturing. hypodermic needle.
5. Informal. an injection of a drug or medicine; shot.
6. any of various objects resembling or suggesting a needle.
7. the tapered stylus at the end of a phonographic tonearm, used to transmit vibrations from a record groove to a transducer for conversion to audible signals.
8. Electricity. magnetic needle.
9. a pointed instrument, or stylus, used in engraving, etching, or the like.
10. Botany. a needle-shaped leaf, as of a conifer:
11. Zoology. a slender sharp spicule.
12. Chemistry, Mineralogy. a needlelike crystal.
13. a sharp-pointed mass or pinnacle of rock.
14. an obelisk or a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone:
15. Also called needle beam. Building Trades. a short beam passed through a wall as a temporary support.

Idioms

1. on the needle, Slang. taking drugs by injection, especially habitually.
2. the needle, Informal. irritating abuse; teasing; heckling (used especially in the phrases give someone the needle and get the needle).

verb (used with object)

1. to sew or pierce with or as if with a needle:
2. Informal. to prod or goad (someone) to a specified action: to tease:
3. Slang. to add alcohol or ether to (a beverage):

verb (used without object)

1. to form needles in crystallization.
2. to work with a needle.

Origin of Needles

before 900; 1880-85 for def 16; Middle English nedle, Old English nǣdl, cognate with German Nadel; akin to Latin nēre to spin

Examples for Needles

Pins and Needles, thousands of them—and something feels tight.

It seemed as though a dozen Needles were penetrating little by little into his flesh.

The image of this as a “luxury” service fades a bit when the Needles appear.

There were pictures of me crying, pictures of my hair falling out, pictures of me injecting myself with Needles.

The Needles and string were to be used for mending the explorers' clothes.

No end of cotton and Needles had to be sold to get such a sum together!

I'm kind of afraid of Needles, but if there were a personal intravenous caffeine drip, I would seriously consider it.

After that, who knows how many innocent straws of hay will start to look like Needles under the gaze of unseen algorithms.

All we wanted was them Needles and a little elbow-grease and gumption.

Needles to say, no other high-income country behaves like this with deadly weapons.